Poverty Effects of Russia's WTO Accession: Modeling 'Real' Households with Endogenous Productivity Effects

We employ a computable general equilibrium model of the Russian economy to assess the impact of accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on income distribution and the poor. We incorporate all 55,098 households from the Russian Household Budget Survey as agents in the model. The model include...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr, David G.
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4905